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ruddleman

noun

ruddleman

noun

Etymology From ruddle + -man. First appears in print in 1622, possibly coined by Michael Drayton.

1

Someone who deals in ruddle (red ochre), usually itinerant and red-stained

  • And little Rutlandshire is tearmed Raddleman.1622, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 23:
  • The traveller with the cart was a reddleman - a person whose vocation was to supply farmers with redding for their sheep.1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, page 9:

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